Hey All4Ɇn, I was going to post the fish, amphibian/reptile, and bird segments of my Landau Core Vocabulary, but then I decided I'd ask you a different question: would you like me to send you the whole LCV? If you PM me your email addy, I can email you the list as I have it tweaked up right now. You'll get lots of animal and plant names, plus a whole lot more (colors, prepositions/postpositions, food and drink, vehicles, weapons, thinking verbs, speaking verbs, verbs of movement, kinship terms, words for physical description, body parts, clothing, medicine, nature, etc.)

Counters With Money
Since I'm back in school I won't be able to post as much so here's a small grammar note in the meantime . As the word for money, 萡 (Nan), is uncountable, when before words that require counters, counters for specific currency have to be used instead. For example:

In Vietnam:咦𠇍銅罖？Xi·haom đunh nãnh?
How much money is it? (literally how much đồng is it?)

In China:伵固𠇍圓。
Hũnh a đỉt yúin.
I have some money. (literally I have some yuan)

Last post for awhile I swear . I got snowed in today and managed to have some time to conlang 邊 (Hãnh/Pưnh/Pen/Men)
The character 邊 is a very common character and as of right now is the only character to have at least 4 different pronunciations depending on the situation

Hãnh
When the character has this pronunciation it means riverside/river bank

Pưnh
Only occurs in the Ởnh·Vú word for Phnom Penh: 岑邊 (Sũm·Pưnh)

Pen
This pronunciation is the form used in Sinic loanwords. When used alone it means the edge/side of a shape

Men
Only occurs as a suffix in the words below where it turns prepositions into nouns:

But why are there two different ways to count to 10? And - follow up - why would you require first graders to learn both at the same time or shortly after? I personally would say you should postpone the second series (if there is any connotation to it, like business counting) to the second grade at least.

Heaven and Earth, but I feel the color of the cake when you keep the Victoria.
I had a mantra on the moss and I had to go to bed.

But why are there two different ways to count to 10? And - follow up - why would you require first graders to learn both at the same time or shortly after? I personally would say you should postpone the second series (if there is any connotation to it, like business counting) to the second grade at least.

The second series is the one inherited from Proto-Chamic and is used alone or with many counters up to 1000. The first series is borrowed from Middle Chinese and is used in a large number of counters (often related to time or measurement but not always). The first system is also used for all numbers above 1000 in all cases. Take for instance the counter for animals 𡓋 (Y) which uses the native numbers: 𠃩𤾓𠃩𨑮𠃩𡓋 (Lảnh·Rãch·Lảnh·Sủ·Lảnh Y)- 999 animals; 𠦳扜𡓋 (Ri·Ꞗo Y)- 1000 animals; 千一𡓋 (Tén·It Y)- 1001 animals.

As both number sets are incredibly useful it makes sense to me that both would be learned around the same time. Plus the Chinese number set's characters are some of the easiest Hanzi out there for children to learn and their potentially more used Chữ Nôm counterparts are written using those Chinese numerals as radicals.

西 (Yủ/Xí/Ga)
Thought I'd continue talking about some of the common characters with varied pronunciations and 西 is by far one of the most common characters in Ởnh·Vú

Yủ
This is the pronunciation used when the character is alone. With this pronunciation the character means west

Xí
This is the pronunciation used in Chinese loanwords such as in the word for Southwest: 西南 (Xí·Nơm). In addition to occurring in Chinese loans, this pronunciation is very common as a phonetic character in non-Sinic words such as the following below:𨫊西 (Bơ·Xí)- Iron𣷷西 (Ta·Xí)- Ocean粓西 (La·Xí)- Cooked Rice or Meal西子 (Xí·Tứ)- Saw

Ga
This pronunciation only occurs in one of the few Ởnh·Vú instances of a jukujikun phrase. As the words for Breakfast: 𤎜粓西 (Gữ·La·Xí) & Lunch: 𣊿粓西 (Sảm·La·Xí) translate literally to Morning Meal and Afternoon Meal, the word for Dinner: 𣎀粓西 (Ba·Mỡnh·Ga) is written with the characters for Night Meal despite the pronunciation for all 3 characters being completely different.